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People like jasmine smell for perfume, but I cant stand it. It smells like a bit broken down urea to me. Like somebody didn't clean up in the bathroom. How about a flower you wouldn't expect considering it's full of prickles? Thistles are my favorite flower smell. Lilac is a very close second. But there are some awful smells that hide delicious tastes. Durian fruit is one. Limburger is another. I could not get past the stink of limburger for a long time. But one time when I had great need to talk to Dad, I braved the limburger he dearly loved but had to eat all alone. While I talked to him, he offered me a slice. I tasted it and found I loved it like I adore gouda! I won't brave the stink for it, but I will always accept when offered.
Definitly the worst fact if something like that would occur Is that we would have no chance to have any power on that kind of decision. And yeah probably Who have that power would sacrifice some of this goodlooking bigots fanboys. I don't c Bill Gates, or others with similar kind of economical/social power, risk his life on the first line.
@@OSuzieQBabyILuvU I forget what rosemary smells like. Sorry....I just felt like your comment was the perfect opportunity to make some kind of memory related joke. It was terrible. I'll see myself out. 🙈
One of my favorite smells is when bread is being toasted. While it's in the toaster, the smell always takes me back to my childhood and visiting my grandfather, whom I didn't get to see very often before he passed. He always had a single slice of toast covered with jam or marmalade with his breakfast. It's such a simple, common smell, but to this day (it's been almost 30yrs) it never fails to take me back and remind me of my grandfather, even if it's only for a split second before I have to continue with my day.
What a lovely memory of your grandfather 😊 The specific smell of popcorn kernels heating in an air-popper takes me right back to my childhood, and I can distinctly recall the particular smell of the entryways to each of my grandmothers' houses. I love how things I think I only vaguely remember can suddenly come into sharp detail when I remember what the place smelled like. It's like having a whole separate memory system hidden in my brain.
I was watching a documentary about quantum physics. It was long, I was on dialysis half alert/asleep. and went deeper into it then a Sci Show so I wasn't catching everything. There was one part where they randomly talked about quantum entanglement, I believe, and was talking about how smells can transcend time due to it. If I recall it has to do with the electron which can be in multiple places at one time. So you're basically smelling the same electron. Something like that. I put it on repeat a few times trying to figure out what the hell they were talking about then passed out. So sorry about being so vague. It was a wild theroy though.
Perfumers use the chemistry discussed in your video to create rain accords, water notes, and many others. Demeter makes single note fragrances including Grass, and one of my favorites, Dandelion, not normally a fragrance for perfumers. It's been fascinating to begin to understand the chemistry of fragrance and the basis of many accords/notes originating in Nature. Then there are all of Maison Margiela's "Replica" series of perfumes. They're meant to evoke a moment in real life. By The Fireside, Jazz Club, Whispers in the Library, are some of the themes.
I love the smell of fresh asphalt or fresh tarred driveways and just figured out why. As a child I lived next to new construction and streets and so it smells like the innocence of childhood.
This is the second smell mentioned in a comment that forcibly reminds me of my grandfather - he was a heavy mechanic working (among many things) on clearing highway courses in the bush and my dad would tell us all about it when we passed construction zones.
I know what you mean, but my description is gonna sound weird. The smell of impending snow is almost.. hollow? I don't know how to define it, but I know exactly what you're referring to.
I had one land in my hair from an over head lamp just after I turned the light off to go to sleep. One does not just easily remove a stink bug from slightly long hair even when trying to not kill it. My pillow and I did not get along the rest of that night and it totally got cleaned a few times the next day.
@@limalicious Doesn't mean anything is wrong with you, it means that you either adapted to it through exposure, have less stinky bugs in your area, or something got mixed up when your olfactory bulb formed, some kind of random mutation that just so happened to leave you unsusceptible to the stink. Evolution just be like that sometimes.
I love the smell of the ocean. But for me, growing up near a working waterfront, the smell of the ocean is the sea itself, seaweed, fish (sometimes pungent) and diesel. I just spent my first winter in the Florida keys and I was surprised at just how faint the ocean smell is. Also there is a lot more life in Maine waters where the water a a deep green and scuba diving at times is like being in pea soup. Whereas the water in Florida is super clear.
Born and raised on the shores of CT, in that time we moved to Florida for one month, so I can completely relate to what ur saying! Hope all is well for u down there my friend✌️❤️
Yeah growing up in Sarasota, Florida I took for granted just how special the beaches were until I moved to the West Coast and the beaches on the Pacific just weren't the same. Then I moved to the Midwest and what they call beaches here, these man-made oversized outdoor pools had and still have me longing for the ease of access to the beautiful and serene water fronts I enjoyed in my youth.
I know. I love the whole mass of wild crazy things together that make up a strong ocean smell. I want to see Florida’s ocean now so I can see what it smells like.
*smiles* Reminds me of the time I was showing off my new haul from the bookstore to a colleague. He flipped a book open, put his face alarmingly close to the pristine page and inhaled deeply. I laughed and shook my head while he explained himself. Thank you
It's weird because I loved the smell of gasoline as a child and now I absolutely hate it. There was no psychological experience or anything that made me hate gas, just as I got older it smelled less good over time.
The difference may have to do with the gasoline itself. Today’s gasoline is diluted with ethanol which means less of that sweet smelling benzene. For the past decade, the EPA has limited the percentage of benzene in gasoline to no more than 1.3%. Also gas station nozzles have vapor recovery technology that traps more of the little bit of benzene vapors that are there.
Sometimes, smells can smell good or bad because of the memories they trigger. For example, I like the smell of salt water not so much for the smell, but because it reminds me of the beach and all the fun activities I do there.
New babies have a smell that I have heard people say they love. I think I heard they give off a scent that triggers certain chemicals in our brains meant to make us want to peotect and care for them.
They don't actually mean babies by themselves smell good. Usually they're talking about the products associated with babies like baby powder, baby oil, baby wipes, and shampoos
Yes, fresh baby smell is amazing. It's there to make us want to protect them. In saying that, I remember smelling a baby once and was SO UPSET that it masked by a disgusting washing detergent or the smell of the wardrobe or SOMETHING! Gross.
@@darkydoom yeah, not all washing detergent smells good. I was actually upset I didn't get to experience the new baby smell because my nose stopped working while I was pregnant. I was relieved I didn't have to smell dirty diapers, but I really missed out on new baby smell from my own child.
My favorite section of the grocery store is the coffee aisle and my favorite specialty clothing store is a leather wear store. It isn't hard to figure out why.
Yessss ozone is so good. Petrichor is good and all, but the ozone part is where it's at. That PRE-storm air is my all time top favorite smell. Walking out into a nice crisp air and smelling that rain on its way is just SO GOOD. I also love something coming off of sun-baked stones. Specifically only hot rocks.
It would be cool for you to do a video about the smells we love(or hate) from our childhood, like glue, play doh, markers, crayons, and for us old folks, the purple ink that was used years ago in mimiograph(sp.?) machines to make copies of homework etc. at school. I think the makers of play doh even patented the smell of play doh.
Oddly enough, I went to primary school in the 80s (started kindergarten in 1987) and I remember having stuff "printed" out in the purple ink - it was mainly in the first few years though. Until this comment it didn't even occur to me that it wasn't a photocopier that made the handouts. As I got older the handouts started to be photocopied and I don't know why but they were often hard to read due to excessive black marks and splotches.
I loved the smell of mimeographed paper and miss it. I think part of the happy association is that we only got those around holiday times; the sheets would have games and such to keep us hellions amused the day before, say, Christmas break when teachers knew there was no way they were going to get any work out of us.
There are scrubby trees in the Sonoran Desert that seem to smell "like rain", whether it's about to rain or has been raining recently, or whether it hasn't rained for weeks & won't rain for weeks. That makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE now that I know that many of the components of petrichor are chemicals released by plants to get through long dry spells! BINTIES!!!! It's been-too-long since I last saw a binturong on youtube! Love these little popcorn-stinking cuties. "Binturongs aren't actually caramelizing their pee" has to be my favourite quote from this episode, & there are a LOT of good quotes in this one. Michael & Olivia -- you guys are golden, & I don't mean showers... "I Smell the Sea" is a song I've been singing, since I was maybe 5 or 6, every time I smelled that distinct sea smell. Over 50 years after writing the song, I FINALLY discover that all this time I've actually been smelling... exploding plankton???? There are no words. Thank you, Rose Bear-Don't-Walk. Thank you, Sci Show. This compilation sure doesn't stink!
10:25 If you do NOT like that new car smell, I can say confidently from experience that stopping to buy a bag of garlic bagels on the way home from the car dealer is a sure-fire way of getting rid of it (or at least masking it)!
I had to watch the video on 0.75x speed because the guy was talking faster than my brain could process words. He talks so fast i am impressed and i am happy youtube has this option to slow it down a bit so i am able to watch it.
whoaaa confusying but aymazying It's interesting information that includes topics such as the smell inside cars, unique smells from certain animals, the smell of rubber, seasonal changes in smells, and the influence of phytoplankton on the smell of the sea. These topics combine different scientific and chemical properties. The material provides intriguing insights into the world of scents and aromas in our surroundings.
Congenital anosmic here - I kept track for a month when I was in high school of how many times someone said either "it's a good thing you can't smell" or "too bad you can't smell" and it came out even.
Freshly cut grass and turned soil after a light rain, is awesome. Petrol too, and there’s a body spray that an old g/f used 35 years ago that I love the smell of and every now and then some random company makes it again because I can smell it out in restaurants, etc. I really want to sniff people to ask the person wearing it, what it’s called 😂
@@bluesmachine1006 Ah... I see. That would have been my next guess, followed by Kiwi as third :) Canadian... Just Canadian, I ain't got 💩 goin on I'm my life 🤷♂️
Editor, could you prolong the cut pauses between her (10:22) talking by maybe 0.1-0.2 seconds? I'm getting stressed out. Nothing wrong with intensity. It's a plus when it comes naturally. Just when it doesn't stop (even naturally for breath) it gets a bit much, for me at least. And if the one reading this is 'her': A relaxing breath before starting the talk is like giving yourself the gift of calm, while simultaneously giving a calm that only you can give to your audience. It's quite powerful in tranquillity.
For me petrichor is the best. That nice earthy sent of aerosolized dirt and dust. You’ll can also get it from ACs or Vacuums that haven’t been turned on for awhile
I have a 1952 copy of The Conquest of Space, I'm not sure how to describe the smell but it's good like a library. It's also good to know that corn is a grass, that's been haunting Rifftrax viewers for years.
Cow poop… weird I know but I think it just reminds me of my childhood. Must run in the family since my little sister once said she wants a pillow of cow poop to sleep on lol
Now I get why my husband loves mowing his lawns with a gas powered mower😂 I love the smell of fresh rain but our daughter can’t stand the odor because it kicks up her allergies.
I can't go near grass getting cut or freshly cut grass for too long, or it kicks up my allergies in a bad way. It's just so hard for me to breathe, but I'm glad some people can enjoy it.
Would cilantro-phobes be hyper sensitive to stink bugs? I have a farmer friend, she gets stink bugs in her house occasionally and she is a major genetic cilantrophobe. I adore the smell of old books, which is becoming more rare as libraries keep their books updated. And what about old house smell? Both of my grandparents houses were over 100 years old, and were frame based. The last time they had major additions was after the Great Storm of Galveston. After that, just maintenance. Both houses had the family scent, but underneath, old house smell. I've noticed the same scent in old house tours and museums. It's stronger on hot days, but with central heat, it's definitely there in winter.
I'd love to know what causes that lovely smell in the air inside an ice cream shop. Is it the waffle cones? *Humans can also cause themselves to have the buttered popcorn scented urine. This year while I began limiting certain foods and increased other foods, the smell of buttered popcorn began to happen. Months later, I can do it on purpose, and no, I do not have diabetes either, not either type. I can cause the smell by increasing my protein intake along with certain oils.
29:37 to 30:05 ...went numb...the correlation... I suffer from fairly well controlled trigeminal neuralgia. But, the hyperosmia I later developed has devastatingly, negatively affected my life and - according to neurologist/specialists and testing - is incurable and uncontrollable. Help? 🥺 Thank you for all your wonderful work, SciShow team 🙏
I love the science behind smells and how different it is for different people. For example, im entirely unbothered by the smell of a skunk but I almost blacked out from being near a concentrated spill of lavender floor cleaner. I also find the smell of Formalin reminds me of peaches while everyone around me was getting sick of the smell only a few minutes in.
Fresh cut grass is my least favorite grass because I stop being able to breathe just after. While I'm fortunately able to touch grass, I have to close up the house whenever someone in the neighborhood mows. Honestly, masks were a wonderful thing when they became regular wear because it filtered out that as well.
It made my allergies and sinuses so much better! I still wear masks when I’m having a bad flare and plan to continue because I like being able to breath! 😂
Really? They just made it impossible for wiping my constantly dripping nose and, yes, I had the fancy masks with the bendy nose bridge. Felt like they just concentrated all the allergins. Just the VOCs of the mask itself made me very unhappy. Thanks, China. I did, however, enjoy a warm nose in the winter.
for my personal atypical scent preferences: fresh-cut grass makes my nose itch and causes me to sneeze, and touching the stuff makes my skin hurt, so I'm most definitely allergic to the chemical it releases. not pleasant. and, I don't mind the scent that stink bugs produce. It's not something I would seek out, but it doesn't really repel me very much
Books always smelled like expensive tobacco to me growing up. I always imagined that people before me toked on their pipe reading before returning it. It's likely why I started smoking. 🤷🏻♂️
Yes I agree! I wouldn't say that is why i started smoking, that is hard to say, I just always loved the smell of burning tobacco even when I was young. I also very much enjoy the taste when i started smoking and even while quitting, which made quitting smoking that much harder. Even though I no longer smoke, the smell of the tobacco or fresh smoke or a 100yr old book seem to invoke a similar feeling of euphoria. I also love the smell of seasoned wood burning. Green wood like that from a wildfire has a pungent revolting smell. But dry seasoned wood burning is glorious.
Sleeping dogs smell so calming and amazing. I like the smell of their feet when they're relaxing, too; there's a harmless type of fungus that grows on their paws that smells like corn chips. It also grows on ferret paws, so I'd call my ferrets my ferritos. Like Fritos. 😅
One of the smells I like to reminisce about is the smell of sloppy Joes that I had in preschool. I'm not sure why but it always brings my back to the simpler days of light-brights, finger painting, and the playground 😊
The first smell that scientists extensively examined was likely ammonia. This was due to its pungent odor and potential toxic effects, which led researchers to study its chemical properties and understand its effects on the human body. Ammonia was one of the earliest substances investigated in the field of chemistry and is considered a fundamental compound in the study of gases and odors.
If you haven't done it already, I'd love to see a video on what exactly the "smells like sunshine" scent is. I can't wrap my head around how something(s) can supposedly smell like some part of the visible light spectrum. Poetic license blah blah, sure, okay -- but what does the phrase "smells like sunshine" *actually mean* in layman terms??!
Fun fact about the popcorn urine thing: When humans have urine that smells like popcorn, fruity, or sweet, it's frequently a sign of diabetes or pre-diabetes!
The smell of a library, fresh cut grass, rain on the way, are all great, but my favourite smell is my cats fur. I can bury my face in his fur and just breathe it in. Almost as soothing as his purr.
I HATE the smell of grass, especially cut grass. I don't know if it's allergy/asthma related, or just a preference. But I really wanna know what about gasoline attracts spiders? I have a Honda Accord, & there's a valve in the exhaust system that helps recapture the fumes. Mine wasn't closing right, so I googled the issue, & it turns out Honda published a service bulletin on it: it's caused by spider webs. Being an arachnophobe (so much I have to look away while I type the s-word), I decided not to do that repair myself, & took it to a shop. The guy at the desk kinda laughed when I told him what the problem likely was, but when I picked up the car, he said...it was all full of spider webs & all they had to do was clean it out! What's that about?
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Love all these smells! Very interesting to know more about them.
People like jasmine smell for perfume, but I cant stand it. It smells like a bit broken down urea to me. Like somebody didn't clean up in the bathroom.
How about a flower you wouldn't expect considering it's full of prickles? Thistles are my favorite flower smell. Lilac is a very close second.
But there are some awful smells that hide delicious tastes. Durian fruit is one. Limburger is another. I could not get past the stink of limburger for a long time.
But one time when I had great need to talk to Dad, I braved the limburger he dearly loved but had to eat all alone. While I talked to him, he offered me a slice. I tasted it and found I loved it like I adore gouda! I won't brave the stink for it, but I will always accept when offered.
Smells like $
I hate the smell of grass it reminds me of summer but I know where that smell is there is grass pollen
First getting a mohawk and then a backwards cap. Truly hank is becoming the ultimate cool guy
Understandable. Not many people can pull off the Lex Luthor look that chemo causes.
Someone should give him a Brixton Hooligan. He was born to rock a Hooligan.
Hank was ALWAYS the ultimate cool guy.
Sick dude!!!
@@nugboy420Indeed quite sick😢
I vote Hank Green to be Earth's ambassador to the aliens cause he's the best of us
That wouldn't be a good representation of humanity as a whole tho. Aliens could feel cheated if they learned we aren't actually like that
@@deliriouscheeto or they could blast us away if they think we do.
Definitly the worst fact if something like that would occur Is that we would have no chance to have any power on that kind of decision. And yeah probably Who have that power would sacrifice some of this goodlooking bigots fanboys. I don't c Bill Gates, or others with similar kind of economical/social power, risk his life on the first line.
As an herbalist, my favorite smell is probably fresh rosemary. Like when I handle the plant and the leaves rub on me it smells amazing
I've heard that rosemary is good for memory. How is yours?
@@OSuzieQBabyILuvU normal
@@OSuzieQBabyILuvU I forget what rosemary smells like.
Sorry....I just felt like your comment was the perfect opportunity to make some kind of memory related joke. It was terrible. I'll see myself out. 🙈
Rosemary smells SOOOO GOOD!
I made rosemary bread a couple weeks ago, so good!
Ooh yes, rosemary smells amazing. There's a bush right outside my back door so I've got pretty consistent access to it, which I'm very pleased with
One of my favorite smells is when bread is being toasted. While it's in the toaster, the smell always takes me back to my childhood and visiting my grandfather, whom I didn't get to see very often before he passed. He always had a single slice of toast covered with jam or marmalade with his breakfast. It's such a simple, common smell, but to this day (it's been almost 30yrs) it never fails to take me back and remind me of my grandfather, even if it's only for a split second before I have to continue with my day.
What a lovely memory of your grandfather 😊
The specific smell of popcorn kernels heating in an air-popper takes me right back to my childhood, and I can distinctly recall the particular smell of the entryways to each of my grandmothers' houses. I love how things I think I only vaguely remember can suddenly come into sharp detail when I remember what the place smelled like. It's like having a whole separate memory system hidden in my brain.
hello. there are candles that recreate that smell!!
I was watching a documentary about quantum physics. It was long, I was on dialysis half alert/asleep. and went deeper into it then a Sci Show so I wasn't catching everything.
There was one part where they randomly talked about quantum entanglement, I believe, and was talking about how smells can transcend time due to it.
If I recall it has to do with the electron which can be in multiple places at one time. So you're basically smelling the same electron.
Something like that.
I put it on repeat a few times trying to figure out what the hell they were talking about then passed out. So sorry about being so vague.
It was a wild theroy though.
@@dianapennepacker6854 that sounds so interesting, I wish you knew the title!
@dianapennepacker6854 that's so fascinating!
As a child I could smell rain coming. Now as a contractor I can smell water on concrete. Lucky me
At least you'll know if your home ever gets a water leak problem?
wait you can't snell rain coming anymore?
There's even a word for that rain smell. Petrichore. (Not sure of spelling)
I've always loved the smell of rain on warm concrete 🥰
In Arizona there is a distinct smell of creosote in the rain. I associate the smell of ozone with snow.
Perfumers use the chemistry discussed in your video to create rain accords, water notes, and many others. Demeter makes single note fragrances including Grass, and one of my favorites, Dandelion, not normally a fragrance for perfumers. It's been fascinating to begin to understand the chemistry of fragrance and the basis of many accords/notes originating in Nature. Then there are all of Maison Margiela's "Replica" series of perfumes. They're meant to evoke a moment in real life. By The Fireside, Jazz Club, Whispers in the Library, are some of the themes.
The scent-emotion association is real and it's STRONG. I have my late mom's bottle of perfume, one sniff is enough to make me cry.
I absolutely love the smell of books.
I prefer the newer books more then the older ones.
I love the smell of fresh asphalt or fresh tarred driveways and just figured out why. As a child I lived next to new construction and streets and so it smells like the innocence of childhood.
This is the second smell mentioned in a comment that forcibly reminds me of my grandfather - he was a heavy mechanic working (among many things) on clearing highway courses in the bush and my dad would tell us all about it when we passed construction zones.
Who else can tell when snow is coming? I grew up with snowy winters, doesn't snow much where I live now. It's weird, but I love it.
Not smell the snow but I can taste it like when a thunderstorm is coming but a little different.
I know what you mean, but my description is gonna sound weird. The smell of impending snow is almost.. hollow? I don't know how to define it, but I know exactly what you're referring to.
Stink bugs have an incredible defense. You only have to kill one to learn that you should not kill... at least by squashing.
I had one land in my hair from an over head lamp just after I turned the light off to go to sleep. One does not just easily remove a stink bug from slightly long hair even when trying to not kill it. My pillow and I did not get along the rest of that night and it totally got cleaned a few times the next day.
Accidentally chewed on one once
@@badabingbadaboom9251 😲🤢
Must be something wrong with me because stinkbug odor doesn't really bother me.
@@limalicious Doesn't mean anything is wrong with you, it means that you either adapted to it through exposure, have less stinky bugs in your area, or something got mixed up when your olfactory bulb formed, some kind of random mutation that just so happened to leave you unsusceptible to the stink. Evolution just be like that sometimes.
I love the smell of the ocean. But for me, growing up near a working waterfront, the smell of the ocean is the sea itself, seaweed, fish (sometimes pungent) and diesel. I just spent my first winter in the Florida keys and I was surprised at just how faint the ocean smell is. Also there is a lot more life in Maine waters where the water a a deep green and scuba diving at times is like being in pea soup. Whereas the water in Florida is super clear.
Born and raised on the shores of CT, in that time we moved to Florida for one month, so I can completely relate to what ur saying! Hope all is well for u down there my friend✌️❤️
Yeah growing up in Sarasota, Florida I took for granted just how special the beaches were until I moved to the West Coast and the beaches on the Pacific just weren't the same. Then I moved to the Midwest and what they call beaches here, these man-made oversized outdoor pools had and still have me longing for the ease of access to the beautiful and serene water fronts I enjoyed in my youth.
I know. I love the whole mass of wild crazy things together that make up a strong ocean smell. I want to see Florida’s ocean now so I can see what it smells like.
You are a Kramer
@@AlejandroMadrid-tn1gp lol I don't get the reference I never watched Seinfeld
*smiles*
Reminds me of the time I was showing off my new haul from the bookstore to a colleague. He flipped a book open, put his face alarmingly close to the pristine page and inhaled deeply. I laughed and shook my head while he explained himself. Thank you
My art teacher did that with a book I made out of leather, felt lowkey violated but in a funny way 😂
I had a friend in high school who would do that every time she went to a bookstore.
We need Scishow hats! And the proceeds goto cancer research!
❤❤❤yes this
I would buy a app.
It's weird because I loved the smell of gasoline as a child and now I absolutely hate it. There was no psychological experience or anything that made me hate gas, just as I got older it smelled less good over time.
Me too! Lol. Loved it during childhood, hate it now?? 😮😊 Whatev 😊
The difference may have to do with the gasoline itself. Today’s gasoline is diluted with ethanol which means less of that sweet smelling benzene. For the past decade, the EPA has limited the percentage of benzene in gasoline to no more than 1.3%. Also gas station nozzles have vapor recovery technology that traps more of the little bit of benzene vapors that are there.
I liked it until my clothes were saturated with it after a terrible car crash.
I loved it more when I was a child. But I am older but I wouldn't say I hate it. It just doesn't smell the same as it used too.
Sometimes, smells can smell good or bad because of the memories they trigger. For example, I like the smell of salt water not so much for the smell, but because it reminds me of the beach and all the fun activities I do there.
OMG, Huckleberry is so adorable! We need more of him, stat!
But at what cost?
I totally 💯 agree…huckleberry is cute
Teslas don't have that "new car smell". They have that "Elon musk".
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Hank, we hope you are healthy. We want you with us for a very long time!
New babies have a smell that I have heard people say they love. I think I heard they give off a scent that triggers certain chemicals in our brains meant to make us want to peotect and care for them.
Or to mask what comes out of the stinky end?
I’m somewhat alarmed bc babies tend to smell of spit up, like, that’s all I smell 😂
They don't actually mean babies by themselves smell good.
Usually they're talking about the products associated with babies like baby powder, baby oil, baby wipes, and shampoos
Yes, fresh baby smell is amazing. It's there to make us want to protect them. In saying that, I remember smelling a baby once and was SO UPSET that it masked by a disgusting washing detergent or the smell of the wardrobe or SOMETHING! Gross.
@@darkydoom yeah, not all washing detergent smells good. I was actually upset I didn't get to experience the new baby smell because my nose stopped working while I was pregnant. I was relieved I didn't have to smell dirty diapers, but I really missed out on new baby smell from my own child.
I love the smell of wet earth and/or pavement, the cold air before it gets cold enough to snow, fresh-cut grass, and cut watermelon.
My favorite section of the grocery store is the coffee aisle and my favorite specialty clothing store is a leather wear store. It isn't hard to figure out why.
Many people have certain level of love of bodies smell too... thanks for the scientific explanation.
Yessss ozone is so good. Petrichor is good and all, but the ozone part is where it's at. That PRE-storm air is my all time top favorite smell. Walking out into a nice crisp air and smelling that rain on its way is just SO GOOD. I also love something coming off of sun-baked stones. Specifically only hot rocks.
It would be cool for you to do a video about the smells we love(or hate) from our childhood, like glue, play doh, markers, crayons, and for us old folks, the purple ink that was used years ago in mimiograph(sp.?) machines to make copies of homework etc. at school. I think the makers of play doh even patented the smell of play doh.
Ahhh, the mimiograph! Can't believe my fingers aren't still tinted purple.
Oddly enough, I went to primary school in the 80s (started kindergarten in 1987) and I remember having stuff "printed" out in the purple ink - it was mainly in the first few years though. Until this comment it didn't even occur to me that it wasn't a photocopier that made the handouts. As I got older the handouts started to be photocopied and I don't know why but they were often hard to read due to excessive black marks and splotches.
I loved the smell of mimeographed paper and miss it. I think part of the happy association is that we only got those around holiday times; the sheets would have games and such to keep us hellions amused the day before, say, Christmas break when teachers knew there was no way they were going to get any work out of us.
Glossy paper, like in magazines. One deep sniff and its an instant mood lifter, almost like a drug I wonder if its like that with cats and catnip?
Thanks Hank and your team for the enjoyment!
Oddly, I really like the smell of tomato vines.
Its a love/hate smell for me lol a whiff is nice, when its stuck to me its annoying
Me to loveeee it
I have this Gore Vidal paperback from the 70s that's also about the 4th century BC, so it really brings that "ancient tome" energy.
There are scrubby trees in the Sonoran Desert that seem to smell "like rain", whether it's about to rain or has been raining recently, or whether it hasn't rained for weeks & won't rain for weeks. That makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE now that I know that many of the components of petrichor are chemicals released by plants to get through long dry spells!
BINTIES!!!! It's been-too-long since I last saw a binturong on youtube! Love these little popcorn-stinking cuties. "Binturongs aren't actually caramelizing their pee" has to be my favourite quote from this episode, & there are a LOT of good quotes in this one. Michael & Olivia -- you guys are golden, & I don't mean showers...
"I Smell the Sea" is a song I've been singing, since I was maybe 5 or 6, every time I smelled that distinct sea smell. Over 50 years after writing the song, I FINALLY discover that all this time I've actually been smelling... exploding plankton???? There are no words. Thank you, Rose Bear-Don't-Walk. Thank you, Sci Show. This compilation sure doesn't stink!
Remember the number one scientific rule about odors.....
"He who smelt it, dealt it!!"
Damn i can't believe i dealt rotting bones
Oh my gosh, I have a mahogany Taylor guitar that, when it was new, smelled JUST LIKE old books (but without the musty dusty side-effect) 😍
Hank is the ultimate 90s cool kid here, mohawk and backwards cap. If he starts saying radical, the transformation will be complete.
10:25 If you do NOT like that new car smell, I can say confidently from experience that stopping to buy a bag of garlic bagels on the way home from the car dealer is a sure-fire way of getting rid of it (or at least masking it)!
I had to watch the video on 0.75x speed because the guy was talking faster than my brain could process words. He talks so fast i am impressed and i am happy youtube has this option to slow it down a bit so i am able to watch it.
I didn't KNOW THAT. Thank you!
@barbarasmith3755 no problem! I hope it helps
Thank you Hank !
Olivia is my favorite '2nd Gen' SciShow host!
whoaaa confusying but aymazying
It's interesting information that includes topics such as the smell inside cars, unique smells from certain animals, the smell of rubber, seasonal changes in smells, and the influence of phytoplankton on the smell of the sea. These topics combine different scientific and chemical properties. The material provides intriguing insights into the world of scents and aromas in our surroundings.
Never knew there was so much I didn't know about smells.
You forgot wet cement after it's been rained on or even just been watered by accident lol
Congenital anosmic here - I kept track for a month when I was in high school of how many times someone said either "it's a good thing you can't smell" or "too bad you can't smell" and it came out even.
Ocean smell is the smell I love.
We need more Michael, he's so good!
Freshly cut grass and turned soil after a light rain, is awesome. Petrol too, and there’s a body spray that an old g/f used 35 years ago that I love the smell of and every now and then some random company makes it again because I can smell it out in restaurants, etc. I really want to sniff people to ask the person wearing it, what it’s called 😂
You English?
@@nikm5628 Welsh. Wrexham AFC 😎
@@bluesmachine1006 Ah... I see. That would have been my next guess, followed by Kiwi as third :)
Canadian... Just Canadian, I ain't got 💩 goin on I'm my life 🤷♂️
Editor, could you prolong the cut pauses between her (10:22) talking by maybe 0.1-0.2 seconds? I'm getting stressed out.
Nothing wrong with intensity. It's a plus when it comes naturally. Just when it doesn't stop (even naturally for breath) it gets a bit much, for me at least.
And if the one reading this is 'her': A relaxing breath before starting the talk is like giving yourself the gift of calm, while simultaneously giving a calm that only you can give to your audience. It's quite powerful in tranquillity.
Just here to say Hank is a treasure and we don't deserve him
For me petrichor is the best. That nice earthy sent of aerosolized dirt and dust. You’ll can also get it from ACs or Vacuums that haven’t been turned on for awhile
This was an amusing video to see in my recommended as a congenital anosmic ✌️
I'm an old printer and would like to know why I love the smell of zinc eyelets rolling around in a bronze tumbler.
I loved the smell of leather saddle on my childhood bicycle and I recently realized it’s xylene. Then I read it’s used in leather manufacture.
great show!! thanks 🦨🌱💐
17:18 my chemistry of food prof in college pronounced it “mail-urd” reaction, thus how I always said it, but she was from Massachusetts so😂
Looool!
Mr. Maillard was French. The proper pronunciation is "may-yar".
I have a 1952 copy of The Conquest of Space, I'm not sure how to describe the smell but it's good like a library. It's also good to know that corn is a grass, that's been haunting Rifftrax viewers for years.
That old wood furniture smell brings me back to sitting on my grandparent’s pool table in the basement and pushing the balls around, having a blast.
Cow poop… weird I know but I think it just reminds me of my childhood. Must run in the family since my little sister once said she wants a pillow of cow poop to sleep on lol
Basil is my weakness. Not a huge fan of cooking with it but boy do I love, and I do mean love, the smell.
I slightly drooled at the mention of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
Some of my favorite smells are rubbing alchohol, sharpies, and basements. I dont know why. I love these weird smells so much
Now I get why my husband loves mowing his lawns with a gas powered mower😂 I love the smell of fresh rain but our daughter can’t stand the odor because it kicks up her allergies.
I can't go near grass getting cut or freshly cut grass for too long, or it kicks up my allergies in a bad way. It's just so hard for me to breathe, but I'm glad some people can enjoy it.
Not saying you are wrong but a lot of guys also love using gadgets, tools and mechanical contraptions. Lawn mowers fit in nicely. LOL
@@andrewbogard2411Yeah, I hate the smell of cut grass. It burns my nose. I also have terrible allergies to grasses and weeds.
Would cilantro-phobes be hyper sensitive to stink bugs? I have a farmer friend, she gets stink bugs in her house occasionally and she is a major genetic cilantrophobe. I adore the smell of old books, which is becoming more rare as libraries keep their books updated. And what about old house smell? Both of my grandparents houses were over 100 years old, and were frame based. The last time they had major additions was after the Great Storm of Galveston. After that, just maintenance. Both houses had the family scent, but underneath, old house smell. I've noticed the same scent in old house tours and museums. It's stronger on hot days, but with central heat, it's definitely there in winter.
I'd love to know what causes that lovely smell in the air inside an ice cream shop. Is it the waffle cones?
*Humans can also cause themselves to have the buttered popcorn scented urine. This year while I began limiting certain foods and increased other foods, the smell of buttered popcorn began to happen. Months later, I can do it on purpose, and no, I do not have diabetes either, not either type. I can cause the smell by increasing my protein intake along with certain oils.
I’m wondering if popcorn consumption by zoo visitors disrupts the mating cycle of captive binturongs!
29:37 to 30:05 ...went numb...the correlation... I suffer from fairly well controlled trigeminal neuralgia. But, the hyperosmia I later developed has devastatingly, negatively affected my life and - according to neurologist/specialists and testing - is incurable and uncontrollable. Help? 🥺
Thank you for all your wonderful work, SciShow team 🙏
Some flavored tea-mixes have such an addictively pleasant smell that it's way better than the actual drink.
I love the science behind smells and how different it is for different people. For example, im entirely unbothered by the smell of a skunk but I almost blacked out from being near a concentrated spill of lavender floor cleaner. I also find the smell of Formalin reminds me of peaches while everyone around me was getting sick of the smell only a few minutes in.
The most heavenly scent is water coming when it's been dry.
Old books is the best smell in the world. Bath and Body Works needs to add that to their home fragrance lineup. ❤
I recently purchased a Wallflower plug-in from B&BW called "Book Loft" so they do have what you're looking for!
We had a binturong at the zoo I did summer camp at growing up. My friend named him Popcorn
Fresh cut grass is my least favorite grass because I stop being able to breathe just after. While I'm fortunately able to touch grass, I have to close up the house whenever someone in the neighborhood mows. Honestly, masks were a wonderful thing when they became regular wear because it filtered out that as well.
It made my allergies and sinuses so much better! I still wear masks when I’m having a bad flare and plan to continue because I like being able to breath! 😂
Only for the defective
Really? They just made it impossible for wiping my constantly dripping nose and, yes, I had the fancy masks with the bendy nose bridge. Felt like they just concentrated all the allergins. Just the VOCs of the mask itself made me very unhappy. Thanks, China. I did, however, enjoy a warm nose in the winter.
@@sarahrosen4985 I am so sorry to hear that. Its really weird that they would keep in what they're meant to keep out.
for my personal atypical scent preferences:
fresh-cut grass makes my nose itch and causes me to sneeze, and touching the stuff makes my skin hurt, so I'm most definitely allergic to the chemical it releases. not pleasant.
and, I don't mind the scent that stink bugs produce. It's not something I would seek out, but it doesn't really repel me very much
I really liked this compilation. Micheal is my favorite. 🎉
My dad has a little red bible from my grandpa that he had in the 1960s, it definitely had the old book scent
Some people hate the scent of coffee. I love the smell.
Water does smell of things because it’s been treated. You can often smell a very faint bleach type scent.
Books always smelled like expensive tobacco to me growing up.
I always imagined that people before me toked on their pipe reading before returning it.
It's likely why I started smoking. 🤷🏻♂️
Yes I agree! I wouldn't say that is why i started smoking, that is hard to say, I just always loved the smell of burning tobacco even when I was young. I also very much enjoy the taste when i started smoking and even while quitting, which made quitting smoking that much harder. Even though I no longer smoke, the smell of the tobacco or fresh smoke or a 100yr old book seem to invoke a similar feeling of euphoria. I also love the smell of seasoned wood burning. Green wood like that from a wildfire has a pungent revolting smell. But dry seasoned wood burning is glorious.
Can y’all make a video about how ceratopsians evolved it would be a interesting topic to cover
thids sounds like an PBS Eons type of video
I enjoy the smell of dogs when they are sleeping and that is probably their sweat. I just love it so much.
I dislike everything about dogs, especially their smell. They stink.
Sleeping dogs smell so calming and amazing. I like the smell of their feet when they're relaxing, too; there's a harmless type of fungus that grows on their paws that smells like corn chips. It also grows on ferret paws, so I'd call my ferrets my ferritos. Like Fritos. 😅
@@toby9999I'm sorry your life is so deprived of joy and comfort.
@@Nylak-Otter I always thought they smell like salami haha. I always say "it smells like grocery store in here" when they've been sleeping inside.
Probably depends on whether you're a cat person or a dog person. I think dogs stink. I'm a cat person.
Now i feel a little better about being the only person in my circle that hates the "new car smell"
It's always given me a headache..
I love the smell of winter!
One of the smells I like to reminisce about is the smell of sloppy Joes that I had in preschool. I'm not sure why but it always brings my back to the simpler days of light-brights, finger painting, and the playground 😊
The first smell that scientists extensively examined was likely ammonia. This was due to its pungent odor and potential toxic effects, which led researchers to study its chemical properties and understand its effects on the human body. Ammonia was one of the earliest substances investigated in the field of chemistry and is considered a fundamental compound in the study of gases and odors.
Used to have lots of stink bugs around my old house. I learned real fast to very gently take them outside. lol
If you haven't done it already, I'd love to see a video on what exactly the "smells like sunshine" scent is. I can't wrap my head around how something(s) can supposedly smell like some part of the visible light spectrum. Poetic license blah blah, sure, okay -- but what does the phrase "smells like sunshine" *actually mean* in layman terms??!
I for some reason like the rubbery smell. It's unique.
Me too.
For me it’s pine needles and that cookout smell
Fun fact about the popcorn urine thing: When humans have urine that smells like popcorn, fruity, or sweet, it's frequently a sign of diabetes or pre-diabetes!
The smell of a library, fresh cut grass, rain on the way, are all great, but my favourite smell is my cats fur. I can bury my face in his fur and just breathe it in. Almost as soothing as his purr.
I HATE the smell of grass, especially cut grass. I don't know if it's allergy/asthma related, or just a preference.
But I really wanna know what about gasoline attracts spiders? I have a Honda Accord, & there's a valve in the exhaust system that helps recapture the fumes. Mine wasn't closing right, so I googled the issue, & it turns out Honda published a service bulletin on it: it's caused by spider webs. Being an arachnophobe (so much I have to look away while I type the s-word), I decided not to do that repair myself, & took it to a shop. The guy at the desk kinda laughed when I told him what the problem likely was, but when I picked up the car, he said...it was all full of spider webs & all they had to do was clean it out!
What's that about?
I fell more in love with the smell of the edition of Harry Potter books I have than with the story itself.
Roasting green chile is the best
"Biblichor": The (usually pleasant) scent of books
Probably my most underrated favorite smell is wet rocks or hard water stains. Am I the only one??!!
Starts out
"What is that smell?"
Bibliochor I watched the old video
Gasoline reminds me of Saturday mornings when dad would drag out the old Snapper riding lawnmower and go mow the lawn.
17:12 it's actually pronounced My-ard. It keeps it's french pronunciation in English :P
the irony of this video autoplaying just hours after i squished what i thought was a carpet beetle but quickly realized was in fact a stinkbug
One of my most favorite smells is cold air and diesel exhaust
I came here for smells and just keep cheering for hank
Hope you feel better soon Hank